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Shinto Art
Click here to learn more about Shinto scroll art and shrines.
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Japanese Tool Ghosts and Monsters
The fascinating field of Japanese Yokai (monsters) and ghosts is immense. One specific group inside this wide world are the spirits of tsukumogami (付喪神). This idea originated from Shinto religion, which believes, that everything in the world is a god and has a spirit inside.Therefore, it should be treated with respect and appreciation. Click here to read more…
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Shinto History
Shinto has been a major part of Japanese life and culture throughout the country’s history, but for the greater part of that history Shinto has shared its spiritual, cultural, and political roles with Buddhism and Confucianism. Click here to read a brief history of Shinto.
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Native American Monsters of Myth and Legend
Dive deep into Native American mythology. Take the Bohpoli, for example, who are little people of Choctaw folklore, known for causing mischief and particularly for throwing rocks at people (the name “bohpoli” means “thrower.”) Some people believe the Bohpoli are the same people as the Kowi Anukasha, another race of Choctaw little people who are typically…
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Japanese Shinto
Shinto (“the way of the gods”) is the indigenous faith of the Japanese people and as old as Japan itself. It remains Japan’s major religion alongside Buddhism. Shinto does not have a founder nor does it have sacred scriptures like the sutras or the Bible. Propaganda and preaching are not common either, because Shinto is…
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Japanese Yokai
Japanese Yokai consists of ghosts and supernatural monsters which have been used as an explanation for the phenomena which can’t be accounted scientifically. Numerous Japanese Yokai from the ancient period has dreadful features as they needed the darkness to exist. The darkness stimulates the fear and the imagination at the same time, that produced countless…
